Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

G. A. BROWN. BOOT 0R SHOE.

No. 468,187. Patented Feb. 2, v1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BROWN, OF TROY, NEXV YORK.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,187, dated February 2, 1892.

Application filed November 13, 1890. Serial No. 371,276. (No model.)

To LZZ whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, CHARLES A. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such improvements 5 and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

.Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, which forni a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a View in side elevation of my improved shoe with a portion of one side broken away to show the meshy part of the twofold lining. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section taken on the broken line 2 2 in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a similar sectional View, on an enlarged scale, with a portion broken away. Fig. i is a section similar to that shown in Fig. 3, showing a modification.

As boots and shoes are commonly made of a dense compact material, such as leather or rubber, the exhalations from the pores of the foot have no way of escape except from the foot-opening at the top of the boot or shoe. The progress of the exhalations toward the escape-opening is greatly impeded or wholly barred by the contact of foot and shoe. W'hen the heated exhalations come in contact with the cooler surface of the shoe, they are condensed and produce darnpness, often suiicient to saturate the stocking. I provide a double or two-ply lining made of knitted or woven fabric or other reticulated material folded one ply upon another to form a passage-way between the plies for the exhalations to escape from the interior to the mouth of the foot-opening or other exit-openings in the upper part of the shoe. The lining may be inserted in the boot or shoe in any known manner of inserting linings; but the material of which the lining is formed is so constructed that that portion of the lining which is contiguous to the mouth of the foot-opening or other exit-openings formed in the shoe shall be looser-textured or open to afford meshes or exit-openings for the heated air or exhalations to escape from between the plies. I am thus able to form an `air space or passage between the foot and shoe, which tends to prevent the exhalations from condensing upon the inner surface of the leather of the shoe or dampening the stocking. The natural movements of the foot within the shoe tend to producea circulation up through suoli passage and out through the ineshy portion of the lining, thus carrying from the interior of the shoe to the atmosphere the exhalations from the foot.

Referring to the drawings, A is the shoe, provided with an upper foot-openingA, and, when desired, with exit-openings A2, for the escape of the foot-eXhalat-ions, forming ventilator-openings.

The lining is composed of the two plies B and B', folded one upon another and secured by a line of stitching Bs'to the upper part of the shoe around the foot-opening- The lining is preferably secured through a single thickness and folded afterward along the line of stitching B3, the loose edges of the plies being secured, with the shoe-uppers A3, between the inner sole C and the outer sole C by the stitching C2, as shown in Fig. 2. The coarser meshes made in the lining along the fold are represented by the small exit-openings B4. Vhen desired, the lining-plies may be formed of two separate pieces, with a meshy portion or strip along one edge or at other desired points, as shown in Fig. 4., and the upper edges of both plies secured to the upper part of the boot or shoe by a line of stitching, as before described. When the liningis so constructed, exit-openings A2 may be formed in the outer or leather part of the shoe opposite the meshy part of the lining to alford a free passageway from the space betwen the lining-plies out through the shoe to the atmosphere. The meshy part of the lining may be located at any desired point in its upper part when exitapertures have been formed in the shoe to register with the meshes in such part of the lining.

By the term reticulated material I in tend to include any known form of knitted or Woven fabric.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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l. A ventilated shoe havingadouble lining the body part of the lining, some of vwhich 1o composed of retieulated material, lille-upper meshes "register 'with the `v er'tilttor-,openings, portion of which at or near the foot-opening substantially as described. is provided with eoarser meshes than the body In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 5 part of the lining, substantially as described. my hand this 8th day of November, 1890.

2. A shoe having ventilatorbpenings in its CHAS. A. BROWN. upper outer part ande..double'liningeomposedi Wit-nesses: of retieulated material, the upper part of GEO. A. MOSHER,

which is provided with eoarser meshes .thank FRANK C. CURTIs.. 

